[meteorite-list] A question for the scientists - Bunch, Rubin, others.

[aerubin at ucla.edu]

I was always fascinated by Astronomy as a kid and never thought of  
doing anything else.  I received my B.S. in Astronomy from the  
University of Illinois.  When I decided to go to grad school I was  
working part-time at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and did not want  
to leave the city. I went for my M.S. at the University of Illinois,  
Chicago; because they didn't have an Astronomy program there, I went  
into Geology.  I had previously taken only an introductory course in  
Geology as an undergraduate, but I liked it.  I needed to write a  
Master's thesis and the only thing I could think of at the time that  
combined astronomy and geology was meteorites.  So, I did a master's  
thesis on mesosiderites.  I went for my Ph.D. at the University of New  
Mexico, partly on the advice of Ed Olsen (my Master's adviser and  
Curator of Meteorites at the Field Museum).  He said that they  
actually looked at meteorites at UNM instead of just breaking them  
apart and analyzing them.  That appealed to me. (I turned down an  
astronaut fellowship at Washington University to go to UNM.)  I  
enjoyed the work I was doing in New Mexico and did a one-year post-doc  
at the Smithsonian before going to UCLA.  Anyway, that's my story.
Alan


Quoting Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com>:

> Hi Listees,
>
> I have a question for the scientists and meteoriticists on this List :
>
> At what point in your academic career did you decide to pursue
> meteoritics?  Did you set out from the beginning to study meteorites,
> or did you move to meteoritics by some twist of fate or serendipity?
>
> I wish I had been "turned on" to meteorites earlier in my life, so I
> could have decided to pursue it as a career, and not as a hobby.  But
> alas, this old dog is too old and poor to enter college again and
> pursue the science.  So I am curious what led our experts to the field
> of meteorites.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
>
>
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